Dual‐Mode Encryption for UC‐Secure String OT from Learning with Errors
Momeng Liu, Yupu Hu, Qiqi Lai +4 more
Universal composability (UC) is a primary security flavor for designing oblivious transfer (OT) due to its advantage of arbitrary composition. However, the study of UC‐secure OT over lattices is still far behind compared with constructions over prequantum assumptions. Relying on the learning with errors (LWE) assumption, Quach proposes a dual‐mode encryption scheme (SCN’20) for deriving a two‐round OT whose security is provably UC‐secure in the common reference string (CRS) model. Due to its use of a randomized rounding function proposed by Benhamouda et al. (PKC’18), this OT can only be limited to transmitting single‐bit messages. Therefore, conducting trivial repetitions of Quach’s OT when transmitting multibit strings would be very costly. In this work, we put forward a modified dual‐mode encryption cryptosystem under the decisional LWE assumption, from which we can derive a UC‐secure string OT with both full‐fledged dual‐mode security and better efficiency on transmitting strings. The key technique we adopt is a key reconciliation scheme proposed by Jiang et al. (PKC’20), which is utilized to extend the single‐bit symmetric encryption key (produced by the aforementioned rounding function) to a multibit case. Through a comprehensive performance analysis, we demonstrate that our proposal can indeed strike a balance between security and efficiency.
IET Information Security•Jan 1, 2024•0 citations